Lynn- We made it out to Walmart tonight (we shoveled our LARGE driveway out and the plow came through late in the afternoon. ) But we had plenty of food anyway! We got fun stuff, like more long underwear and ingredients to make cookies (and the like...):) Thank you for your concern! It will only get (quite) hard if our power (heat) goes out; although last year (Dec 25th) we had to burn wood for 4 days with the power out due to a bad bad ice storm.